The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-01-08
What to Put in the Stocking.

Daniel, said the president, as the
private secretary came in with a port
folio under his arm, did you write this2
found it on the floor
what is it, sir1' asked the secretary.
1T is poetry, and l don't like it, said
the president sternly. Listen to this
and he read from the sheet of paper he
held in his hand:
She put out her foot, just enough to disclose =
The rather diminutive size of her hose;
"My friends to buy presents are focking
And beautiful things they are certain to find
Now what thing is prettiest-tell me your mind
can possibly get in my stockings?"
He looked down at her feet and looked up at her
face,
And he bowed with moderate measure of grace
9Th be honest-and don't think me shocking
They may get what they please, but there is moth
ing, swear,
Which can remotely begin to compare
With what you have now in your stOcking!"
Daniel said the president sternly,
as he finished reading, 4 will not en-
barrass you by pursuing this inquiry any
further, but l don't want anything more
of this sort. It's all right to be inter-
ested in Christmas and the good old
fashioned observances, and don't OBJ
ject to verse now and then, even when
it is as weak as this; but l do object,
seriously, to the sentiment. There is
sort of Partisan flavor l don't like. 1t
doesn't remind you of pumpkin pie. l
want it understood, Daniel, that there
is nothing Gallo about this administra-
tion.'
And the president turned to his papers
and began to read the latest charge
against Collector Hedden.
Facts Worth Remembering,
One thousand shingles Iald Tour IllcS1gsl.
to the weather, will cover one hundred
feet of surface, and five pounds of shin
gle-nails will fasten them.
One-ffth more siding and flooring is
needed than the number of square feet
to the surface to be covered, because of
the lap in the siding and matching of
the floor.
One thousand laths will cover seven
ty yards of surface, and eleven pounds
of lath nails will nail them down.
Eight bushels of good lime, sixteen
bushels of sand, and one bushel of hair
will make enough mortar to plaster one
hundred square yards.
A cord of stones, three bushels of lime
and cubic yard of sand, will lay one
hundred feet of wall.
Five courses of brick will lay one foot
in height on chimney. Nine brick in
a course will make fue eight inches
wide, and twenty inches long, and eight
bricks in course will make fue eight
inches wide, and sixteen long.
A box twenty eight inches by sixteen
inches square, and twenty inches deep
will contain barrel.
A box eight inches square and four
and one-eighth inches deep will contain
a gallon.
A box four inches by four inches square
and four and one-eighth inches deep
| will contain quart.
BaTAn autograph letter that would
like to own, says correspondent OF
Tile NeaV York Times, was shown me a
few days ago. "A Lincoln was boldly
signed at the end of it, and this wisdom
was there, paragraphed in this wise:
'Do not worry.
EAT three square meals day.
Say your prayers.
Think of your wife.
BE courteous to your creditors.
keep your digestion good.
steer clear of the billlousness.
Exercise.
Go slow and go easy.
Maybe there are other things tina
your especial case requires to make yol
happy, but, my friend, these, l reckon
will give you good lift
B@The story comes from Boston o
dude who, having been asked to sa,
grace at a formal spread at which h
took leading part, bowed his heat
slightly, languidly lowered his eyelids
and murmured, ooh, Lord thanks-aw
fullyp
B~Perseverance is the best schoc
for manly virtue,